Election thread – Four days to Election Day

– Election Pick’em: Yesterday, we reached a milestone as more than 500 Election Projection readers have now registered to play EP’s Election Pick’em. It’s a game where you get to enter your best guesses on who will win and by how much. As of this morning, here’s what EP readers are saying:

If you haven’t yet joined the fun, you can register here. And be sure to check your spam folder for your registration code. After the election, we’ll be tracking the results and the winner of each challenge will earn a prize!

Recently, the Washington Post, Yahoo News, Time, the Columbia Journal Review and a host of other news organizations reported on a Center for Public Integrity study detailing the federal campaign-finance filings of journalists, reporters, news editors, television news anchors and other donors working in journalism. The study found that 96 percent of those contributions – or about $382,000 – went to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, while the remainder went to Donald Trump.

If you can directly translate donations into votes, that would mean journalists are a more solidly Democratic voting bloc than even African-Americans. With lopsided leanings like that, it’s only plausible that the media would tilt toward liberal reporting.

– Indiana Senate Election: When Evan Bayh entered the race to fill the open seat left by Republican Dan Coats retirement, I was pretty sure the Democrats would earn a takeover here. They still may, but recent polling shows Republican Todd Young performing very well. In fact, the last three polls have pegged the race at +2 for Bayh, tied, and, just today, Young +5. Regardless of who wins, it’s clear this race is going down to the wire. That’s not what I expected when Bayh announced his run.